Nations prepare for cyber war

[Fiery]

In 2012, large-scale cyberattacks targeted at the Iranian government were uncovered, and in return, Iran is believed to have launched massive attacks aimed at U.S. banks and Saudi oil companies. At least 12 of the world's 15 largest military powers are currently building cyberwarfare programs, according to James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

So a cyber Cold War is already in progress. But some security companies believe that battle will become even more heated this year.

"Nation states and armies will be more frequent actors and victims of cyberthreats," a team of researchers at McAfee Labs, an Intel (INTC, Fortune 500) subsidiary, wrote in a recent report.

Michael Sutton, head of security research at cloud security company Zscaler, said he expects governments to spend furiously on building up their cyber arsenals. Some may even outsource attacks to online hackers.

Read more: http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/07/technology/security/cyber-war/index.html

 

[Deleted member 178]

One day "Skynet" will becomes true...

More seriously, all vital infrastructures, multi-national companies, stocks exchanges markets depend heavily on computers so they become, of course, targets of choice; strike the enemy's economic infrastructures then you will win.

 

[Exterminator]

Lets just hope they are not using Stopzilla AVM 2013 as there security,Lifelock for there sensitive information,carbonite as there back up and My Clean PC for whatever it is that MY Clean PC really does.

 

[malbky]

LOL, twas funny white nobster. Use Linux.

 

[Spirit]

Use Linux.

This is not the solution